Ep. 3 – In Your Own Way
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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The Principle of Relativity
The principle of relativity is the absolute foundation of the philosophy of the dao. If all bones and subtleties inside you feel other than your conscious ego, but nevertheless are one with it, that's you too. Laudzer takes it up in his second chapter when he says, when all the world understands beauty to be beautiful, there is already ugliness. Thus to be and not be arise mutually high and low are posited mutually. Long and short are compared mutually. It's like a that wonderful little parable of the chinese character for man looks more or less like an upturned v. But the profounder meaning underneath this is, thares no self without other
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